I still love the old Iron.....But the golden age of musclecars is now.....Here's why....

I still love the old musclecars. Although I sold my Hurst / Olds ( I needed the money and I found someone who wanted it more than I did ) I'll probably buy another 70's T/A or '60's Mustang to play with in the near future. However, sometimes I get tired of listening to people say how this or that old musclecar would smoke this or that new musclecar in a drag race. Especially when 99.9% of the time their dead wrong. Here's why. Very few of us have ever owned or knew anyone who owned stuff like a Thunderbolt Fairlane, or a Hemi Dart or a 427 Cobra or an L88 Corvette. Ditto for Hemi 'Cudas, LS6 Chevelles,W30 442s, RAIV GTOs,428CJ Mustangs, SCJ 429 Torinos etc. 95% of our "Musclecar Memories" whether their from our own car or our father's or big brother's or a high school buddies-come from "Entry Level" musclecars. I.E.-340 Dusters, 351 Mustangs, 350 Camaros, 389 GTOs, 383 Road Runners, 396 Chevelles etc. Tales of being pushed back in the seat and third-gear rubber seem silly when someone pulls out a yellowed, dog-eared copy of Car Life or Hot Rod and we find that the machine in question ran in the 14.60s. A new V6 Mustang runs the 1/4 quicker than that. Ditto for a new V6 Camaro. Step up to the 435 hp Mustang GT or the 426 hp Camaro SS or the 465 hp SRT8 Charger and the times drop into the 12s. That's good enough to compete with the heavyweights I listed. If you go to the next level-the ZL1 Camaro, the Shelby GT500, or the Hellcat Mopars and it's not even close. And these new cars will do it all day in 90 degree heat with the A/C on. And they corner like slot cars and stop on a dime. Yes, I'd like to have say-a solid-lifter, 4-speed L78 396 '69 Camaro. I love the way they look, the way they sound and the way they feel. But the fact is a 2015 Camaro SS would blow its doors off in a drag race or the twisties. Ditto for a 2015 Mustang GT against a '69 428CJ Mach 1. But you know what? For my forty grand-I'd rather have one of  the '69 models. No they do not have a glass-smooth idle, and the shifters are more like racking the slide on a 12-guage shotgun than putting a hot knife through butter, and the leaf-spring, solid-axle rears will wheel hop and shred the tires under hard acceleration or hard braking. Like an old Porsche 911 they do not suffer fools lightly. That's why Porsche guys still cherish the 1967-73 911S models-even though a new Cayman or 911 will toast it in a drag race or on the skidpad.  That's why you buy an old car-because it's different from what's new and has a totally different personality. A new Nissan 370Z is way faster and better handling than the original 240Z. Yet there's guys that prefer the old 240's. So go ahead and love the old cars-but stop claiming that that your 440 GTX would smoke a new SRT8 Charger, or that your 390 hp 427 'Vette would eat a new Stingray if you had drag radials, because it just isn't true. Mastermind